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English 3 - This Week

Week of Monday, May 17, 2010

Notebooks/binders/folders/planners due on Friday, May 21
Monday, May 17
  • Vocabulary - 1 from each chapter of Into the Wild (with page number)
  • Homework -
    • Read Chapter 16 for quiz
    • Find definition for your vocab word, making it fit smoothly into Krakauer's sentence (for Weds.)
Tuesday, May 18
  • Chapter 16 quiz
  • What information about his surroundings could have helped Christopher save his own life?
  • Homework -
    • Read Chapter 17 for Thursday with handout questions
    • Find definition for your vocab word, making it fit smoothly into Krakauer's sentence
Wednesday, May 19
  • How do you make a definition fit smootly into a sentence? Work with the definition until you can get it to exactly replace the vocabulary word in Krakauer's sentence.
  • Vocabulary words and definitions onto transparencies - First, write Krakauer's sentence from Into the Wild. Then, rewrite the sentence with the definition exactly in the place of the vocabulary word.
  • Share: 15 vocabulary words and definitions
  • Homework -
    • Read Chapter 17 (with handbook questions) for Thursday
    • Quiz on 15 vocabulary words: definitions and fill-in-the-blank using context clues.
Thursday, May 20
  • Finish vocabulary transparencies
  • Listen to Chapter 18
  • Homework -
    • Finish Chapter 18 for Friday
    • Finish Dialectical Journal through Chapter 18 (Epilogue to be done in class on Friday).
    • Vocabulary quiz - 15 words - definitions, sentences
    • Notebooks/folders/binders/planners due
Friday, May 21
  • Vocabulary quiz - definitions, sentences
  • Epilogue
  • Turn in Dialectical Journal - Ch. 12- Epilogue
  • Film